Hospital bed



Feb, 10. 1925.

W. DRY

HOSPITAL BED Filed April 26 PatentedFeb. 10, 1925.

WEBONIFOA DRY, F FARMINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

HOSPITAL BED.

Application filed Apr1126, 1924. Serial m3. 709,112.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that Wnnomon DRY, a c1t1- zen of the United States, and resident of Farmington, in the county of Marion and State of West Virginia, has invented-certain new and useful Improvements in Hospital Beds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a bed in the nature of a hospital bed, and the object of the invention is to dprovide a hospital bed having incorporate therein various features of construction compactly designed and arranged to best provide for a patient or invalid necessities and comforts requisite and desirable.

With the above objects in view, as well as others which will become apparentas the specification proceeds, the invention comprises the construction, arrangement and combination of parts as now to be fully described and as hereinafter to be specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a bed in which the features of the invention are incorporated.

Fig. 2 is a vertical, lon itudinal central sectional view of the bed 0 Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view detailing the plate having the pipe to the stool pan and the hose to the urinal pan; and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of the food table having cuspidor.

In the drawing, is a head piece having posts 11, 12 a foot piece having posts 13, 14 a wire spring support for mattresses, 15 a cotton mattress on the spring support, and 16 is a feather mattress on the cotton mattress.

The spring support 14 rests upon side pieces 17 extending from head piece to foot piece, and said side pieces, together with the head and foot pieces and a suitable lower platform 18 provide a large chamber adapted to be divided into compartments, three as shown, as by partitions 19 and 20 extending laterally of the bed. The compartment at the foot end of the bed houses a single drawer 21 adapted to receive any articles which may be laced therein, and the compartment at the liead end of the bed houses drawers 22 and 23 and more especially adapted to receive towels and linen,

all of the drawers being slidable in their" compartments and having knobs24 whereby the may be manipulated.

The compartment at the center of the bed, between the partitions'19 and 20 desirably has double folding doors 25 and receives a stool pan 26 and a urinal pan 27, the urinal pan resting directly upon the platform 18 and the stool pan being supported from said platform in' a manner to be explained.

The spring support 14 and mattresses 15 and 16 are cut away as at 28, the .cut-awa part being preferably central of the be and in the cut-away portion a plate 29 is arranged, the marinal edge'of the plate lyin between the mattresses 15 and 16, as Wil be very clear from Fig. 2. This plate 23 comprises a urinal hose 30 leading to the urinal pan, and pipe 31 leading to the stool pan, suitable open spaces, denoted 32 and 33, being arranged above the hose and pipe as disclosed. The hose 30 and pipe 31 pass through openings in plate 34 having its marginal edge between mattress 15 and the spring support and in plate 35 having its edge secured to the spring support. As shown in Fig. 2, the pipe 31 snugly fits the plate 35, and the upper edge of the stool pan is adapted to snugly engage the lower face of said plate35 around the pipe 31 for an obvious purpose; To the accomplishment of this last" mentioned end, the stool pan rests upon a base 37 having tubes 38 telescopingly receiving rods 39 extending upwardly vertically. from the latform 18, a coil spring 40 normally pus ing the -stool pan upwardly against the plate 35. Evidently, to remove the stool pan, all that is necessary is to move the base 37 downwardly against the action of the coil spring 40.

In the cut-away portion 28 and above the plate 29 is a suitable pad 41 adapted to cover the openings 32 and 33 or to be moved ofi of said openings. The manner of manipulating the pad 41 is more clearly shown in Fig. 1. In said figure, 42 is a string secured to the pad as at 43 and riding under keepers 44, and 45 is a similar string secured to the pad as at 46. Ordinarily the pad is removed from the openings in plate 29 by pulling on string 45 and is returned to its closed position by pulling the string 42.

Side pieces 17 have hooks 47 removably Lil receiving short strings 48 secured to the sheet 49, whereby the sheet is smoothly tied down on the upper mattress as is obvious. Numeral 5O denotes a head rest removably placed upon the mattress 16, the head rest being of general triangular configuration and having three faces each of difierent width for the purpose of providing resting surfaces of three different inclinations, an advantageous feature.

Not far from the head piece of the bed and supported by a side piece 17 is a tray 51 for cigars or the like, the tray desirabliy having a stem 52 which is adapted to be a justable vertically in a bracket 53 on said side piece 17. Adjacent the cigar tray is a food tray 54 having therebeneath a bracket 55 for a cuspidor 56, the bracket 55 having fixed to it a stem 57, vertically adjustable in a bracket 58upon said side piece 17. 'As will be clear from Fig. 4, the cuspidor removably sets on the bracket of the food tray.

The novel bed as constructed and as fully described has various improved and useful features of construction.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In combination, a plurality of superimposed mattresses, there being an opening extending through said mattresses, a plate interposed in said opening and having its margin arranged between said mattresses, the plate consisting of a single piece of material including a pipe with relatively large opening leading to a stool pan and a hose with smaller opening leading to a urinal pan, a pad arranged above said opening, means for slidin said pad away from said opening, a secon plate snugly surrounding said pipe and adapted to completely cover said stool pan, and a spring pressed member beneath said stool pan normally tendin tci elevate it to firmly engage said second p ate.

Signed at Farmington in the county of Marion and State of West Virginia this 17th day of April, A. D., 1924.

Mas. WERONICA DRY. Witnesses: C. E. LEATHERBY,

J. M. HAGERTY. 

